Essay about Ogre and Pino Michele

"It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters"
Does the text show this to be true?
The novel "Im not scared" by Niccolo Amminati explores the vicious ways in which a human can behave when challenged with poverty. The text conveys that monsters should become least of our fears, when men are present.

Michele is a young naive nine-year old boy who discovers a dark secret in a hole next to the abandoned farm house. His curiosity brings him to uncover a boy in a hole, Michele is horrified and he runs away, gets on his bike and goes home. This unearthed his childish interpretations and naivety, Michele's initial thought, was that the boy was being kept a prisoner "If he had been caught by an ogre?". When Michele's curiosity brings him back to the hole his naivety of the real danger is being caught by an "Ogre" "What if I arrived and found witches and ogres there?" illustrated that Michele was scared of "Ogres","Monsters" and "Witches". Michele's imagination illuminates his innocence and interpretation of the real world. The first theory of the kidnapping was that the boy was a werewolf, chained up to protect the people of Aqua-Teverse. "At night he became a werewolf", these interpretations show the fear of fantasy. When Michele asks his father Pino about "Monsters" his father replies "Stop all this talk about Monsters, Michele.Monsters don't exist...when I had asked him if monsters could breathe underwater". This is evidence and an insight about a nine-year old show us what he is scared of .After revisiting he comes across the unique apple printed saucepan left at the abandoned farm house "I found it strange that was the same as ours." this linked the boy to Michele personally and when he eventually found out that they were same age and same height. He thought it was his crazy twin brother "He's crazy!He's crazy! Pino take him away!" Michele could only comprehend that his parent were protecting him and his sister. As time past he could finally collect some other type of evidence that his parents and the other adult of Aqua-Teverse were behind the boy being kept hostage in a inhumane way, finally reality hits him literally when he gets caught by Felice and Pino extracts an oath not to revisit and threatens to give him the "trashing of his life"towards the end of the novel.He eventually learns that "Monsters, "Ogres" and "Witches don't exist, it's people like his father that are "Monsters". "It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters". His father said to Michele which is ironic.

Pino Amitrano father to Michele and Maria. Husband to Teresa. Pino was a small man, thin and restless. Pino was a truck driver, he would collect the goods and carried them to the North of Italy. He had black hair, smoothed down with brilliantine and a rough white beard on his chin. When Pino arrived home from the North his greed and jealously possessed him. This is evident when he brings a precious ornament of a Gondola which were novelties of rich nothern people, to Pino is represents his desire to live a rich and materialistic life for himself and his family.This was reason

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